Hawkeye Transducer Thru Hull Location

[3littlepigs]

Anyone have any suggestions on where to mount/glue the transducer on a 97 speedster?
Thanks.

 

[Dr Honda]

Depends on what speedster you have. BUT... there's a good place between the engines. Your bilge pump may be there now. But it's a solid surface, and can be sanded smooth to get a good mount.

But post a pic of your bilge... and we can go from there.

 

[3littlepigs]

I used the bag method with water and placed it on the starboard side of the starboard engine near the harmonic balancer. That seem to work really really well. I never received three dashes. It worked flawlessly the whole day. Then that night I prep the area and taped it down with some petroleum jelly and took it out the next day to make sure before I glued it down. That didn't seem to work as well and I got plenty of three dashes during the day. I fiddled around with that location and added some more petroleum jelly. It seem to do a lot better but not as well as it did in the bag with water method. Maybe it would do a lot better being glued down. But I hate to find that out the hard way.
So now I'm questioning whether that's a best spot.

Yes, back by the bilge in the center of the boat looks like a great place. But getting myself back there to work is the hard part.

One other thing. For power I tapped into the gas gauge and that worked really great. Because now with the boat off anytime I want to check the depth I just hit one of the engine start buttons. I get a reading and it automatically shuts off after 30 seconds.
Thanks.